Psychosocial Factors: Strategies Of Workplace Harassment And Its Relationship With Stress

Research Article
Víctor Hugo Ibarra-González., Nora Isela Macías-Núñez., Ma. Concepcion RodríguezNieto., Jose Armando Peña-Moreno and Alvaro Antonio Ascary Aguillon-Ramirez
DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijrsr.2017.0811.1147
Subject: 
science
KeyWords: 
Mobbing, work stress, violence, victim, symptoms.
Abstract: 

The purpose of this research was to identify stress levels, as well as Workplace Harassment in a manufacturing company located north of the state of Nuevo León. The design was, the sample was a non-experimental methodology, with a cross-sectional correlational design in which 191 employees participated individually answering the questionnaires of Leymann Inventory of Psychological Terrorization (LIPT-60), Modified by Gonzalez de Rivera Revuelta (2005) and the Seppo Aro Symptomatic Stress Scale (1980). The results show that Stress levels are above the average which is 6.89, with regard to the results of Workplace Harassment, the sample refers that of the most used dimensions to receive such harassment was the Job Discredit with an average of 6.34, it is important to mention that within this sample that carried out the research it was found that a group of 48 workers refer to a pathological level of stress since it is found in an average of 15.25, as well as an average of 16.38 in which it refers to the index of strategies of Workplace Harassment, of which the one of Job Discredit and Blocking of the Communication are the most used for said harassment.